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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsPramod A. Bhandiwad, Prashanto Dey, Sivakumar Krishnasamy, Niranjan Srinivasan
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Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for sharing a transmission control protocol (TCP) port by a plurality of applications are provided. Embodiments include receiving, by a transmission controller from a client, a first TCP packet that includes an indication of a new TCP connection for a TCP port; determining, by the transmission controller, an origination of the first TCP packet; identifying, by the transmission controller, a TCP sequence number range associated with the determined origination; selecting, by the transmission controller, an initial sequence number (ISN) within the identified TCP sequence number range; and sending, by the transmission controller to the client, a second TCP packet that includes the selected ISN.
An apparatus for sharing a transmission control protocol (TCP) port by a plurality of applications, the apparatus comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, causes the apparatus to carry out the steps of:
A computer program product for sharing a transmission control protocol (TCP) port by a plurality of applications, the computer program product disposed upon a computer readable storage medium, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a signal, the computer program product comprising computer program instructions that, when executed, cause a computer to carry out the steps of:
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